. and it is particularly troubling, not only for egypt, but, for the long term course of events in syria, and things are extraordinarily polarized and a possibility of an islamist state there. but the more encouraging news, the brotherhood has shown they can -- >> the muslim brotherhood of which he was a member. >> there were calls to ban alcohol and they didn't do it, why? because they cared about tourist dollars and, changing women wear on the beaches and they were concerned about the economic realities and they need western aid and the gaza conflict they behaved responsibly and tried to bring things to a conclusion and there is evidence while they may be throwing bones to the fervent supporters in terms of constitutional language and that is concerning, at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, they may behave more pragmatically. >> chris: your thoughts about egypt, bill. are you optimistic. >> iran has beaches with men and women mixed and, they have nuclear weapons, and, whe -- we retreat everywhere and, we didn't see -- the last four years we were living off the inherited capital of u.s.